A six-month truce has been declared in the battle between Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge district that will keep lawyers out of the courtroom while both sides try to come up with an acceptable design of a new ferry terminal.

The deal involves a Memorandum of Understanding to halt legal action into early next year. Under the plan, the bridge district will submit a revised plan for the project.

“We have some issues to resolve,” said Sausalito Mayor Ray Withy. “But they have come back with a revised set of plans. It’s constructive.”

The bridge district’s revised plan reduces the length of the proposed ferry dock by 4 feet, from 53 feet to 49 feet. The gangway would shrink from 16 feet to 12 feet. The length of the proposed float would be reduced by 1.5 feet, from 145.5 feet to 144 feet. The measurements are close to what a city consultant had recommended, Withy said.

The district will submit the revised plan to the city this month. The City Council will then consider the revised plan at its Sept. 12 meeting, with a final determination at its Sept. 26 session. Public comment will be taken at both meetings.

“In response to the community’s concerns we’ve made further modifications to move the project forward,” said Priya Clemens, bridge district spokeswoman. “We’re looking forward to coming to a mutually agreeable resolution with the city of Sausalito.”

The agreement also requires the sides to try to persuade the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission not to require belvederes for the dock, to work on land improvements for passenger crowd management and to hammer out an agreement on construction storage areas for the work. Instead of a pair of 130-square-foot public access belvederes with a total of four benches, improved shoreline access would be offered in its place.

The new effort to find common ground comes amid a protracted battle to get a new ferry landing built.

It started when the district proposed a new dock in 2014 to replace the aging float.

The Sausalito ferry landing has been in place for more than 40 years — the latest float was built in 1996 — and Golden Gate Ferry officials say an upgrade is needed, in particular because the existing setup does not comply with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.

But residents said the design doesn’t fit the waterfront character of the small town and would only encourage more people — including tourists on bicycles — to crowd the area. Others said the new dock was a needed safety improvement.

District officials withdrew the original plan after residents complained and the City Council rejected the design. The district then returned with new plans in an effort to appease city officials.

The bridge district has received approvals from the needed regulatory agencies, except for the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

The district has maintained all along the work is a replacement of the structure, not a new project, and therefore doesn’t need approval from Sausalito. Last fall, bridge officials sent a letter saying the district no longer sought approval from the city for the project.

Then in September, Sausalito filed a lawsuit in Marin Superior Court, alleging the bridge district — which operates ferry service in and out of the city — was violating a 1995 lease agreement that requires city approval for “major alterations” to the ferry landing.

The case has since been moved to Contra Costa County Superior Court at the request of the bridge district, which wanted a neutral location.

The dock work would cost $11.5 million; 80 percent of the project will be funded by federal dollars, 20 percent by district dollars.